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Aug 8th 2018!⃝Ok,ok, I know this song is for Matty Healy from the band The 1975, but now talking about the lyrics meaning...
There's thwasself pitied guy, who is sad/depressed because of the problems he claims to have "YOU SAID your mother only smiled on her tv show".
And releases his issues on drugs "you're only happy when your sorry head is filled with dope, I hope you'll make it to the day you're 28..." and he sort of 'looks for reasons to be sad' or 'looks for sasadness'And he went to look for it in her because SHE was blue!
Still she seems to appreciate and maybe even love him, even though he doesn't "you ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece"
"Everything is blue, his pills, his hands, his jeans" so here "blue" means a bad state of spirit. "His pills", because he probably takes antidepressants or drugs...
The gray part might refer to the clip, or it's just his already faded dreams.
Anyway, for me the most important part is here when she says "You were red, and you liked me because I was blue"
Here we can infer that he actually made up his own problems and he is not blue in his spirit state, but blue attracts him! So he liked her because she was ACTUALLY blue, maybe her issues were deeper than his.
"But you touched me and suddently I was a lilac sky, and you decided purple just wasn't for you"
Then they got together, and her blue reacted to his red, he was good to her mind state, and maybe this made her happier. But he was probably actually expecting HER BLUE to affect him, and in the end she was better, and he realized that he liled her better when she was in a worse state.
